Welcome
to a new Short Course season! I hope your family had a restful
break.

We’d all like to welcome our new swimmers! Please feel free to ask
questions. We will
have a mentor program for you. There are also many parents who
stay and watch practice. They are good resources and can
help ease the transition to this new sport.

Please
use our website. A lot
of our information is now sent by email and posted on the web. Take time to learn to
navigate around it.

I would
like to take this opportunity to encourage everyone to enter meets
assigned to their groups. The coaches will have more
information about which meets their swimmers need to enter.

There
have been some changes in our coaching staff.

·Kyle Melling who coached
Developmental in Short Course, Age Group1 and Age Group Middle
School in Long Course has gone on to Law School. We wish him the best.

·Tina McCauley, who coached with Dave Evans in
Developmental 2 during Long Course, will now be coaching Age
Group1, Age Group Middle School and PreCompetitive.

·Sarah Ratica is an alumna of our
program. She will be
helping with the Senior/Senior Elite in the mornings and
PreCompetitive groups.

·Fredy Arnold has a long history of coaching in our
LSC. He will be
coaching Developmental 2 with Coach Dave and Senior/Senior Elite in
the afternoons with Coach Mike and Coach Kevin.

Important
events coming up:

·September 11 (11am-12 NN): Try Outs - If you know anyone who
would like to join the Stars, please let them know about it.

·September 14 (6-7:30 PM): Open House (see attachment). This is for everyone and
especially the new families. Stop by the pool lobby. Our committee chairs will
be on hand to answer your questions e.g. entering meets, navigating
around the website, volunteer opportunities, sponsorship
opportunities etc. CAS, our suit and
equipment supplier will be there. You can preorder and pick it up
that day. Please refer
to our website for information.

·September 29: Splash Bash (6-8 PM). Join the
party. We’ll
have a DJ, food and games. If you know anyone who wants to
join the Stars, bring them along.

·October 15-17: Road trip! We will go to Rochester Hills,
Michigan for a travel meet in October. There are no cuts for this meet
and we’d like to see as many families go and participate in
this meet. For those
who can’t make it, this is the same weekend as the Canton
meet, another good meet for everyone to participate
in.